Compared with the battlefield on the middle line, the middle lane breakthrough is interspersed with the two wings, and the fight is wide open and closed. Wang Guangyu on the Western Front, with the cooperation of the First Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, attacked and rushed forward in unison. The direction of Wang Xiaoming on the eastern front seems to be somewhat too dull.

The terrain of Wang Xiaoming's combat area is far more complicated than what Du Kaishan encountered. Under the extremely complex terrain, Wang Xiaoming's march was much more difficult than the battle. The Japanese Third Army in Liaodong shrank to the area along the Shenyang-Andong railway, and Wang Xiaoming avoided the Japanese warning stronghold as much as possible in the early stage of interspersing, so he did not encounter the enemy in the early stage of interspersing.

However, after his troops set out from the area north of Fushun along the Fenghai Railway, in order to conceal their tactical intentions as much as possible, they traveled all the way over mountains and mountains. Even in many sections, in the deep mountains and old forests in the eastern mountains of Xinbin and Hengren, a hard way to go along the mountain direction.

This time is different from the previous time when I crossed Yin Mountain, although the mountain of Yin Mountain is far more steep than the mountains of Liaodong, the altitude is much higher. However, in addition to the middle route, there are also simple roads on the east and west routes. This time, through the mountains of eastern Liaodong, it was forcibly interspersed with the line of Benxi, and it can almost be said that there is no way to use it.

At this time, the mountainous area of Liaodong was far from being almost completely developed as in later generations. Even in the mountainous areas of eastern Liaodong, there are roads at all levels everywhere. At present, the entire mountainous area east of Xinbin and Huanren, except for a few areas, is still a large area of primeval forest. There were forests everywhere, and there were no roads for mechanized troops to enter.

Moreover, the mountainous area in this area is also the highest mountainous area in the whole Liaoning. Along the way, there are a series of peaks with an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, such as Niumao Mountain and Huaneck Mountain. During this period, except for a few simple roads built by the Japanese army in order to clear the anti-coalition army, there were no roads to rely on.

Although he has presided over the Liaodong Theater many times, he has rich experience in mountain and jungle operations. He also knows every ditch and every ridge in the entire Liaodong Mountains. However, the complexity of the terrain and the characteristics of the implementation of the battle plan made Wang Xiaoming's interspersed operations along the way extremely difficult. Even with Cao Yafan's cooperation and the most detailed map, it still gave Wang Xiaoming a headache.

The actions of the troops, infantry and cavalry under their own command are easy to say. However, the passage of heavy equipment has become a big problem. Despite the fact that before the war the artillery of each division belonged, guns of a caliber of more than a hundred mm remained in the rear. The equipment of the artillery regiments of each division participating in the battle has been completely replaced with the Japanese Army's Type 95 mountain artillery and 107 rocket artillery, which are more suitable for this kind of mountainous operations. The number of seventy-six-mm cannons was also reduced from twelve to six.

At the same time, the headquarters also added a large number of mules and horses to carry heavy weapons for the interspersed troops in Liaodong. All the weapons that could be disassembled were disassembled and mounted on mules and horses. These five divisions also fought in the mountainous areas of eastern Liaoning all year round and accumulated a great deal of experience in mountain operations. Before this battle, all the troops were also pulled to the north for a special training in the mountains and depths.

In particular, the two armored brigades conducted many repeated drills interspersed with mountain tanks at the mountain combat training base of the Daxinganling Forest District Military Region. In order to realize the rapid penetration of tanks in mountainous forest areas, the two armored brigade engineering detachments were even deployed to the battalion level, and equipped with a large number of axes, saws and other tools for cutting down trees.

However, after the battle began, the terrain of the entire route was extremely complicated, and there was almost no road to rely on, even a simple road, which still greatly delayed his advance. Despite the full assistance of the three engineer battalions, Wang Xiaoming's progress was still not fast when he had to avoid the Japanese garrison positions along the way.

It was not until 24 October that Chen Hanzhang's headquarters had already broken through into Shenyang, and Wang Xiaoming, who had set out from the mountainous area, arrived at the alkali factory in Benxi and engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese troops stationed at the alkali factory. Wang Xiaoming's unit finally found a passage in the mountainous area of eastern Liaodong, bypassing the line of Qinghe City, Yingshoubaozi, and Weiziyu, where the Japanese army was stationed with heavy troops, and suddenly appeared in the alkali factory used by the Japanese army to control an important stronghold in the eastern mountainous area of Benxi.

Faced with a cluster of anti-coalition tanks that suddenly rushed out of the mountains, although they were well prepared. However, the Japanese troops stationed on the periphery of Benxi can still be said to have been caught off guard. Wang Xiaoming's first echelon successively seized the important strongholds of the outskirts of Benxi, the alkali factory and the small market, and cut off the area north of Benxi, the connection between the Japanese army and Benxi Lake.

Wang Xiaoming's department suddenly came out, and this time it stabbed the hornet's nest of the Japanese Third Army. The first line of the alkali plant and the small market is already close to Benxi Lake. Bengye Lake was a strategic point on the containment of the Anbong Railway, the only land retreat route for the entire Kwantung Army.

The loss of Benxi Lake will not only result in the loss of the second largest pig iron smelting base in South Manchuria, but also the retreat of the entire Kwantung Army. After discovering that the enemy had seized the front line of the soda plant and the small market, the commander of the Third Army, Nakayama Ton, who was severely reprimanded by the Kwantung Army Command, immediately and quickly adjusted his deployment.

The 25th Division of the Japanese Army, which was stationed on the line from Qinghecheng to Weiziyu north of Benxi Lake, was ordered to immediately return and recapture the line of Xiaoshi and the alkali factory at all costs. The 79th Independent Brigade stationed on the front line of Fengcheng was ordered to recapture the front line of the alkali plant at all costs, and completely close the breakthrough that had been opened.

The Liaodong battlefield, which had always been calm, immediately fell into a fierce battle as Wang Xiaoming's troops advanced to the front line of Xiaoshi. Almost all the Japanese troops along the Anbong Railway were mobilized. Wang Xiaoming hit the small city, and it can be said that he directly stabbed the Third Army, including the Kwantung Army, the most painful.

It was also when Wang Xiaoming was constantly overcoming obstacles in the mountainous area of eastern Liaodong and opening a passage to the south. On 24 October, at the same time that Wang Xiaoming's unit appeared on the front line of the alkali factory, according to the predetermined plan, the attention of the entire Japanese Third Army at this moment was attracted by Wang Xiaoming's department.

The Anti-Japanese Union dispatched all its transport aviation units to carry out the first large-scale airborne operation of the Chinese in the entire War of Resistance in Anshan and Benxi Lake. Two paratrooper divisions carried out airborne operations in the two areas of Anshan and Benxi Lake at the same time, plunging the Liaodong region into even greater chaos.

In this airborne operation, the first to kick off were the two squadrons under the Special Operations Command of the Military Region, which had secretly infiltrated the periphery of Anshan at this time. The two squadrons, after receiving the order to start the operation, in addition to seizing the Anshan airfield with one squadron.

Another squadron sent troops to secretly infiltrate the Anshan Showa Steel Works and the surrounding area to provide ground guidance for the subsequent paratrooper paratroopers. Compared with the mountainous area east of Benxi Lake, it is earth-shattering. The Anshan battlefield really kicked off the battle for Anshan Airport, but it was quiet.

Although this Kwantung Army military airfield, because of the continuous air raids of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the aviation of the Kwantung Army was transferred south as a whole. With the exception of a batch of abandoned trainer aircraft, practically abandoned as a military airfield. However, the airport, which is basically intact, can provide a good venue for anti-online landing.

However, although the airfield is practically abandoned, it is still used by the Kwantung Army as a front-line backup airfield. Therefore, although the number of defenders is not large, the strength of two squads of the Anshan Independent Garrison of the Kwantung Army is also stationed here as a garrison for the airport.

But these two Japanese squads basically have no actual warning targets at the moment, except for a bunch of training planes that can only be thrown away in the hangar due to lack of spare parts. Because the front line is still far to the north, the entire Anshan territory is unusually calm. I don't have a real target to guard against at the moment, so the whole guard is very lax.

When the squadron responsible for seizing the airport infiltrated the perimeter of the airfield, it was found that the airfield had almost no defenses other than two barbed wire fences on the perimeter. There were no troops deployed in the bunkers around the entire airport. The sentry at the gate was also lazy and not half energetic.

There was no patrol at all in the airport, and only one of the three searchlights in the entire airport was turned on, and the light emitted by the turned on searchlights did not change places for an hour. The sentry on the tower who is responsible for monitoring the entire airport is sleeping with a rifle in his arms.

Although the two machine gun fortifications at the entrance and exit are crossed, there is only one machine gunner, and there are two machine gunners who are also sleeping soundly. And the crooked machine gun in front of these two machine gunners simply did not even have bullets. Even the machine gun was dragged away by the anti-United Nations troops who touched it, and the two machine gunners who slept quite dead inside did not know that the guy who ate by himself had been lost.

In the face of such lax vigilance, the troops responsible for seizing the airfield almost did not take half an effort to quickly clean up the two Japanese squads. The two Japanese squads that were sleeping in the airport barracks were taken prisoner in a daze.

The special forces responsible for solving the enemy at the airfield pulled up their posture but threw an empty punch. The officers and men of the participating troops even thought that they were not encountering regular Japanese troops, but a group of ordinary people who had not received any military training. It's an army, not even a school of miscellaneous fish.

The first interrogation learned that the original Anshan garrison had long been incorporated into the newly organized brigade. At present, the Anshan Garrison, which is responsible for the security of the entire Anshan and Showa Steel Plant areas, is composed of a small number of troops from the original Anshan Garrison, plus mobilized Japanese and Korean expatriates in Anshan, as well as the Anshan Japanese police.

None of the officers were serious field officers. Except for the partially mobilized retired officers, most of the officers were temporarily reappointed from the former Manchurian police officers in Anshan, who had certain positions. Except for the antiaircraft artillery units responsible for air defense tasks, there are no soldiers in the entire garrison who are under the age of 30.

As for the two squads in charge of guarding this airport, because not a single fighter plane has landed at Anshan Airport since the start of the war. The anti-coalition fighter group that was constantly cruising over the airport was again the target of all strafing activities. During this time, everyone was exhausted. Fortunately, there was no bombing or strafing tonight, so the garrison slept in the barracks.

The squadron leader who commanded the two squads returned to his home in Anshan City to reunite with his wife. Anyway, the airport is far away from the sky, far away from the garrison headquarters. As long as you don't take the initiative to talk about going home for a night, no one knows. The chief officer is not there, and these guys, who were already scattered, are even more scattered.

After the airport was easily obtained, the leading cadres who were responsible for directing the Anshan infiltration operation immediately sent all the interrogation information to the headquarters in the rear. At the same time, the troops that infiltrated the Showa Steel Works and other parts of Anshan encountered much the same situation. The only area with a relatively high security is the two Japanese radar stations north of Anshan Airport.